Electrical Lighting

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Lecturers

Prof.
Davor Škrlec
PhD
Assoc. Prof.
Vinko Lešić
PhD

Lectures

Tomislav Antić
PhD
Aljoša Šribar
dipl. ing.

Course Description

The course covers all forms of electric lighting, with a focus on the latest LED and OLED technologies for both indoor and outdoor applications. After the basic lighting and technical characteristics of light sources, students will focus on acquiring knowledge about lighting design regarding efficiency, energy consumption, and the methods of IoT automation and remote control. The course will also give an insight into current standards and norms, and other international legislation for the categorisation of required lighting and permissible light pollution. Students will acquire knowledge through applications of workspace lighting, interior design, automated greenhouses, lighting in smart homes, city lighting and lighting for sports events. The course combines electrical power engineering and automation, with prerequisites in physics, and offers significant design space. The combination of areas will be adopted through lectures and laboratory exercises on the example of high-tech electric lighting systems, where students will make their own simple electric lighting project in Dialux software through teamwork, practical work, and then test the remote control of an IoT automated electric lighting system.

Study Programmes

University graduate
[FER3-EN] Control Systems and Robotics - profile
Elective courses (2. semester)
[FER3-EN] Electrical Power Engineering - profile
Elective courses (2. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Define and describe physical and light-technical quantities and units of light sources and illuminated surfaces.
  2. Describe and distinguish between LED/OLED luminaires for indoor lighting and for outdoor lighting.
  3. Use basic methods and standards of lighting design.
  4. Describe construction properties of indoor and outdoor luminaries.
  5. Define costs of lighting system ownership (TCO) and ways of accruing savings.
  6. Define legal framework and environmental protection.
  7. Describe how to work in software tools for calculation and simulation of lighting in space.

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

The course is organized into two teaching cycles. The first cycle consists of 7 weeks of direct teaching and intermediate exams. The second cycle of classes contains 6 weeks of direct classes and a final exam. Classes are conducted over a total of 15 weeks with a weekly load of 2 hours.

Exercises

Computational examples from lighting

Independent assignments

After the introductory lecture in which the functionalities of the Dialux program are explained, students solve lighting design by problem-based learning.

Grading Method

Continuous Assessment Exam
Type Threshold Percent of Grade Threshold Percent of Grade
Seminar/Project 50 % 60 % 50 % 60 %
Mid Term Exam: Written 50 % 20 % 0 %
Final Exam: Written 50 % 20 %
Exam: Written 50 % 40 %

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Light and electromagnetic radiation, visible spectrum and basic phenomena
  2. Basic radiometric and photometric quantities and their measurements
  3. LED (light-emitting diode) and OLED (organic light-emitting diode) bulbs
  4. Performance and efficiency of electric light sources
  5. Photometric characteristics of light sources
  6. Lighting system automation: IoT, ballasts, starters and other devices
  7. Methods for the calculation of photometric quantities
  8. Midterm exam
  9. Lighting performance criteria, energy considerations
  10. Methods for calculating photometric quantities, reflections in outdoor lighting construction
  11. Smart lighting and remote control, passive solar lighting (daylight)
  12. Lighting performance criteria, lighting efficiency and economy
  13. Lighting design, energy assessment
  14. Ray tracing and photometric calculation
  15. Final exam

Literature

(.), Električna rasvjeta - transparencije s predavanja; Krajcar, Šribar; FER; 2011; ISBN: -,
(.), Cestovna rasvjeta; Eduard Širola; -; 1997; ISBN: 953-96481-6-5,
(.), Norma za projektiranje unutarnjih radnih prostora (EN 12464-1),
(.), Norma za projektiranje vanjskih radnih prostora (EN 12464-2),
(.), Norma za projektiranje prometnica (EN 13201),

General

ID 223341
  Summer semester
5 ECTS
L2 e-Learning
30 Lectures
0 Seminar
0 Exercises
13 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises

Grading System

90 Excellent
75 Very Good
60 Good
50 Sufficient

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